tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post4317937825685347307..comments2023-10-31T15:39:09.651+01:00Comments on box elder: L'Imagerie, and what I saw there.Lucyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-1523838422907066922008-04-26T06:25:00.000+02:002008-04-26T06:25:00.000+02:00Interesting! Thank you.Interesting! Thank you.MBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14515233228776181123noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-77052620470253700482008-04-21T16:26:00.000+02:002008-04-21T16:26:00.000+02:00ML and Jean - aw shucks! Thank you very much!ML and Jean - aw shucks! Thank you very much!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-22291012824077294472008-04-21T15:11:00.000+02:002008-04-21T15:11:00.000+02:00I enjoyed this so much, Lucy. A real sharing both ...I enjoyed this so much, Lucy. A real sharing both of what you saw and of your response. What you say about the fashion in art photography for the - both deliberately and accidentally - out of focus is something I had also noticed; my reaction to this, like yours, is sometimes positive and sometimes not at all. I also feel similarly about large and small exhibitions and galleries (and the Cycladic Museum is my favourite thing in Athens too). So glad you found Loren's blog. I'm thinking a lot lately, and trying to write, about being slow and mindful and 'really here'. For all my years of meditation practice, if I ever get anywhere close to your gentle, deep, patient looking I'll have got a long way and be very happy.Jeanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08690685768980280402noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-45517355335486305952008-04-21T12:27:00.000+02:002008-04-21T12:27:00.000+02:00Fascinating post again, Lucy. Large art museums ov...Fascinating post again, Lucy. Large art museums overwhelm me with too much to see and assimilate. I particularly remember the Uffici in Florence, and how grateful we were to the friend of a friend who took us under his wings as a very knowledgeable guide. He knew the place intimately and took us past long lineups directly to the best works in each room. No sifting through hundreds, eyes glazed, to find the masterpieces, and no extreme exhaustion, only exhilaration and a sense of awe.<BR/><BR/>I know Loren's blog, HE takes great bird photos too!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-6041629236256224422008-04-21T09:52:00.000+02:002008-04-21T09:52:00.000+02:00Thank you for thoughtful comments.Exhibitions are ...Thank you for thoughtful comments.<BR/><BR/>Exhibitions are very tiring, even this relatively small one with fairly limited scope left me feeling quite sated and tired, so i was glad I'd been able to bring something away I could go back over in a different way. I remember as a child first going to the National Gallery in London with my sister and feeling quite sick and horrified and oppressed, by a lot of the subjects, crucifixions and martyrdoms, grisly myths, but also by the richness of the colours and the welter of images, all too much. <BR/><BR/>I guess you have to be ready for or disposed to get something out of what you see, which often means preparation using books and reproductions. Even concluding you can't stand something is an outcome! <BR/><BR/>But perhaps sometimes less is more, which is where small or local galleries and museums,or those devoted to a restricted subject, can score. My favourite in Athens was the Cycladic museum, which is beautifully presented and just Cycladic art, whereas the big National museum was just overload. <BR/><BR/>One of the most memorable exhibitions I remember seeing as a young person was a single horse from the front of St Mark's in Venice which was brought to London and displayed alone in a large room of the British Museum, with viewing scaffolds so you could get closer to it.<BR/><BR/>GJ - I don't know, you've done some thoughtful abstracts, without obvious stories... I'm not sure I've really got what it takes to contemplate producing photography as straight art, without justifying it as illustration. I know now I'm much more able to see photography everywhere, in adverts, cinematography in films, tv, documentaries etc, much more for itself, separate from it's immediate purpose and the story it's telling. Probably if I'd seen this expo a couple of years ago I wouldn't have been ready for it, wouldn't have seen the point.<BR/><BR/>Robin - Thanks, yours too! It's important to work with what's to hand, and not just to seek out what's obviously beautiful. That's a truism I know. Also I guess one mustn't always reject the obviously beautiful either!<BR/><BR/>I've written nearly as much here as in the main post!Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-69801054736567912392008-04-21T01:47:00.000+02:002008-04-21T01:47:00.000+02:00"I long for the kind of vision that blurs and tran...<I>"I long for the kind of vision that blurs and transfigures things so that office workers behind a frosted glass screen appear as translated, near-angelic beings, and the talent to be able to communicate that vision to others."</I><BR/><BR/>That's as fine a description of the art of photography as I've read, Lucy. And it's what I see in your work, as well.robinstarfishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15665546554663005609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-72159967201122123752008-04-20T20:53:00.000+02:002008-04-20T20:53:00.000+02:00I fear that I am a total cabbage when confronted b...I fear that I am a total cabbage when confronted by the world of art photography. I revert to my journalistic antecedents and always want to know "what is the story" hidden in that confusion.Granny Jhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07302978680897139954noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-42208437662818801642008-04-20T17:47:00.000+02:002008-04-20T17:47:00.000+02:00I never liked Diego Rivera until I saw a retrospec...I never liked Diego Rivera until I saw a retrospective of his work at the Detroit Institute of Arts. Seeing the whole journey, in person, was overwhelming, immersive. But now, his work makes emotional sense to me.<BR/><BR/>On the other hand, a retrospective of El Greco had the opposite effect, I can't stand him, nor Colorists of any type ever since.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37070024.post-9470621641151683762008-04-20T17:43:00.000+02:002008-04-20T17:43:00.000+02:00Sometimes I find exhibits of almost any kind overw...Sometimes I find exhibits of almost any kind overwhelming. Even concerts that go on forever leave me feeling drained. I always love exhibits that showcase only certain aspects of someone's work.Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12325465720003721471noreply@blogger.com